Herman, Ellen
Grosjean, Shelley
2014-09-29T17:49:21Z
2014-09-29T17:49:21Z
2014-09-29
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18393
This thesis explores the relationship between 1970s lesbian-feminist theory and praxis through analysis of the cultural production and lived experiences of Jean and Ruth Mountaingrove, two members of a loose-knit community of back-to-the-land lesbian-feminist separatists in southern Oregon. The Mountaingroves published several successful lesbian-feminist publications from the 1970s until the mid-1980s, as well as incorporating lesbian feminism into all aspects of their personal lives, in essence politicizing their whole lives. The interconnection between the Mountaingroves' personal, public, and professional lives illustrates some of the overarching changes lesbian-feminist theory initiated through the politicization of identity and isolation from men, as well as the boundary-making and contradictions that occurred when lesbian feminists attempted to integrate theory into their personal lives. Through the Mountaingroves' story we can see the fruitful unifying nature of lesbian-feminist theory and culture and the many paradoxes inherent in the politics of identity on public and private levels.
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University of Oregon
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back-to-the-land
feminist
lesbian
Oregon
separatist
"Making Ourselves Real": Jean and Ruth Mountaingrove in the Southern Oregon Lesbian-Feminist Community, 1970 - 1984
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
M.A.
masters
Department of History
University of Oregon

Herman, Ellen
Burke, Lucas
Burke, Lucas
2012-12-07T23:14:36Z
2012-12-07T23:14:36Z
2012
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12551
In recent decades, scholars have praised Portland as a model for urban planning and citizen participation. This thesis complicates Portland's rose-colored image by situating it within recent histories on the long civil rights movement in the West, the Black Panther Party, and civil rights and metropolitan space. The history of Portland's Black Panthers represents an important moment for the black freedom struggle in Northeast Portland's Albina district and for the city's approach to urban planning. Excluded from politics, spatially confined, and subjected to destructive urban renewal projects by the 1960s, blacks in Albina experimented with innovative forms of political participation. These approaches ranged from moderate demands for neighborhood involvement with urban planners to radical, separatist opposition. Although the Panthers' vision of socioeconomic uplift and community control declined, a citywide revolution in politics co-opted their approach, responded to moderate voices, and dismantled much of the undemocratic planning structure in the 1970s.
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University of Oregon
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Albina
Black Panther Party
Black Power
Civil Rights
Model Cities
Portland
Oregon
The Model City: Civil Rights, the Black Panther Party, and the Revolution of Urban Politics in Portland, Oregon
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
2016-02-01

Narath, Albert
Flier, Hannah
2013-07-11T19:57:35Z
2013-07-11T19:57:35Z
2013-07-11
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12948
According to current models, 19th century American quilts are presented as simple objects of cultural heritage or considered for their similarities to other forms of modern art. This thesis follows a three part approach in order to study these objects which are valuable sources of historical information in their full context. This approach includes the historical, social/aesthetic, and material contexts of the objects. The topic of the study is the quilts of the Bethel and Aurora colonies, 19th century Christian "utopian" sects in Missouri and Oregon. While societies such as the Bethel and Aurora colonies shunned many aspects of modernization, quilts appear to be an area of connection with the outside world. The quilts serve as material evidence for the tension between communal and secular worldviews in the colonies.
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University of Oregon
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Aurora
Oregon
Bethel
Missouri
Oregon Trail
Quilts
Textiles
Utopia
Written in Thread: The Evolution of Quilting in the Bethel and Aurora Colonies
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
M.A.
masters
Department of the History of Art and Architecture
University of Oregon